Respondents not willing to foot the bill for traditional backup, DR
for endless data copies

June 13, 2018 09:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time

BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--ClearSky
Data, provider of on-demand primary storage with built-in offsite
backup and DR as a service, today announced the results of its recent
survey on the state of disaster recovery as a service (DRaaS). The
findings reflect the experiences of more than 500 senior-level IT
leaders. While respondents were enthusiastic about the potential for
DRaaS to improve data protection strategies under limited budgets, the
majority have no plans to move to a cloud-only approach, making a strong
case for hybrid DR.

ClearSky’s survey asked leaders in a range of industries where they
store their data, how often they test their DR strategies, what level of
data growth they expect this year and more. The findings confirm data
protection remains a critical concern for enterprise IT leaders, who
want efficient ways to protect all their data and remain operational in
the event of disasters. However, despite cloud advances, 51 percent of
respondents said they have no plans to move to cloud-only approaches.
About the same number reported they are deployed in hybrid models today.

Forty-one percent of participants expect data to grow between 20 and
40 percent this year.

Forty percent of annual data growth is driven by retention policies.

Seventy percent of participants perform DR testing once per year or
less.

“This survey data raises a key question about how more IT teams can gain
access to the cloud for DR in a way that makes sense,” said Ellen Rubin,
CEO and co-founder of ClearSky Data. “Companies are getting stuck trying
to copy and store their way out of their data protection and DR
challenges, which exacerbates the problems. Companies can demand better
by deploying solutions with built-in backup and DR.”

Hybrid data protection and DR strategies bridge the on-prem reality
described by survey respondents with the benefits of the cloud companies
want: focus, speed, agility and cost reduction. ClearSky Data provides
on-demand backup and DR with primary storage as a single service. Users
can eliminate secondary data centers, cut replication and stop doing
backup, while automatically protecting data offsite and for DR. Users
can scale up or down on demand, paying for a single, durable copy of
data that is accessible from anywhere – on-prem or in the cloud.

ClearSky Data delivers on-demand primary storage with built-in offsite
backup and disaster recovery (DR) as a single service. Enterprises pay
for their data once and gain access to it anywhere it’s needed –
on-premises or in the cloud. IT is empowered to stop doing backup,
replication and DR, and to access all data as if it were local, with
on-demand scaling and agility. ClearSky Data delivers data where it’s
needed, enterprise-ready and fully optimized to eliminate the cost and
data center footprint of traditional storage solutions. For more
information, follow ClearSky (@clearskydata)
or visit http://www.clearskydata.com/.